Been having a number of enjoyable standing up GrokBot, so this newest wonderful Lenny Rachitsky’s interview was very well timed. (In specific, I really like GrokBot’s cute animated characters, every barely totally different…

Been having a number of enjoyable standing up GrokBot, so this newest wonderful Lenny Rachitsky’s interview was very well timed. (In specific, I really like GrokBot’s cute animated characters, every barely totally different. They carry me a bit smile each time I set a brand new one up. Not certain whether or not it is intentional, however the design feels very WALL-E/EVE-inspired 👽.)

Lots of nice nuggets, however a key standout for me was Roman Ugarte’s level about giving bots computer systems of their very own somewhat than having them function on ours — which has certainly been a differentiator within the expertise.

The pondering is frequent sense: If you employed an worker, you would not make them use your laptop. You’d give them their very own. Naturally, I’d prolong the identical pondering to taking motion. You additionally would not log into all your personal accounts on that worker’s machine. And but, that is principally the place we’re with brokers proper now.

Where connectors aren’t accessible, the expertise is very jarring. GrokBot asks you to log in as you, however through a screenshare on a machine you may’t instantly entry, in a browser that is not yours. Aside from the inconvenience of remembering a password, handing credentials over to a pc you do not management would not really feel nice. (In my case, it stopped me from shifting ahead with some LinkedIn duties altogether — screenshot in feedback.)

What I truly need is for the agent to behave *on behalf of me,* with out being me, and from a pc that is not mine (with permissions I can explicitly scope, see, and revoke). Feels like delegated id + authority goes to turn out to be a a lot larger drawback as brokers turn out to be extra autonomous: not simply who’re you?, however who’re you performing for, and what precisely have they given you permission to do? There are already some thrilling, early proposals and requirements (e.g. Cross App Access / XAA), however very curious to see what else emerges right here.